Series Description

Series I: Groups/Families

Scope and Content Note

Material for individual Groups/Families generally is further organized into the following: General (includes articles, clippings
and other material about the groups, bibliographies, and broad subject files); Organizations/Groups (includes correspondence,
bulletins, newsletters, flyers, and other material, for the most part issued by that group); Serials (includes short runs
or single issues of serials relating to that larger group or family; longer runs of serials are housed separately and are
listed in the
ARC Serials database ; Unsorted (material presently unidentified but is being filed into one of the three preceding series, as time permits); Oversize
(material housed in flat file boxes and in map cabinet drawers). Audio-visual materials (most commonly commercially-produced
sound recordings and videotapes) have been described separately in the UC Santa Barbara Library catalog.
Group/Family
Location

Adventists

Boxes 38-44

Anglicanism

Boxes 10-11

Astrology

Boxes 80-85

Bahai

Box 175

Baptist

Boxes 32-34

Buddhism

Boxes 192-200

Christian Science

Boxes 56-58

Communalism

Boxes 52-55

Congregationalism

Box 17

The Druze

Box 175

Eastern Orthodox

Boxes 12-13

Episcopal (see Anglicanism)

European Free

Boxes 30-31

Freemasonry

Box 142

Fundamentalists, Independent

Boxes 35-37

Gnosticism

Box 142

Hare Krishna (ISKCON)

Boxes 190-191

Hinduism

Boxes 176-189

Holiness

Boxes 20-21

I Am

Boxes 137-141

Islam

Boxes 172-173

Jainism

Box 192

Jesus People

Box 22

Judaism

Boxes 167-171

Latter-Day Saints

Boxes 48-51

Liberals

Boxes 45-47

Lutheran

Box 14

Magick

Boxes 143-166

Methodism (Pietist-Methodist)

Boxes 18-19

New Age

Boxes 86-104

New Groups

Boxes 203-207

New Thought

Boxes 59-62

Occult

Boxes 122-132

Old Catholic Church

Boxes 3-9

Pentecostal

Boxes 22-29

Reformed-Presbyterian

Boxes 15-16

Roman Catholic

Boxes 1-2

Rosacrucian

Boxes 120-121

Sant Mat

Boxes 192-193

Scientology

Boxes 105-112

Shintoism

Box 200

Sikhism

Box 192

Spiritualism (General)

Boxes 63-66, 68-69

Sufism

Box 174

Swedenborgian

Box 67

Theosophy

Boxes 133-136

UFO (Ufology)

Boxes 70-79

Unclassified Churches and Religious Groups

Boxes 201-202

Unification Church

Boxes 113-119

Zoroastrianism

Box 175

Series II: Secondary Organizations

Scope and Content Note

Files include materials that do not relate to specific groups or families, but pertain to organizations or other bodies that
have a more general religious interest or ecumenical thrust.

General

208-220

Hebrew/Christian

221-223

Series III: Subject Files

Scope and Content Note

Arranged alphabetically, includes materials on various religious topics, but which cut across specific groups or families.
Subject
Location

General

Boxes 224-227

Church and State

Boxes 228-229

Cults/Anti-Cults

Boxes 230-238

Gay/Lesbian

Boxes 239-240

Hypnosis

Box 241

Native American

Box 259

Non-Conventional Healing

Boxes 242-247

Occult/Anti-Occult

Box 248

Parapsychology

Boxes 249-251

Political Extremism

Boxes 252-253

Women and Religion

Boxes 254-257

Series IV: Melton Files

Scope and Content Note

Includes materials pertaining to the research, writings, and professional life of J. Gordon Melton.